Former Obama Joint Chiefs of Staff: ‘Absolutely’ Should Be Accountability for Mistaken Kabul Drone Strike
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen is reacting to the Pentagon saying as many as 10 civilians were killed last month in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. During Sunday’s ABC “This Week”…
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen is reacting to the Pentagon saying as many as 10 civilians were killed last month in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
During Sunday’s ABC “This Week” interview, Mullen was asked, “Should there be accountability?”
“Absolutely. I think there should,” he responded.
Mullen continued, “This was obviously an incredibly complex, fast-moving situation. We lost those 13 military members a couple of days before that. There was clear intelligence that additional strikes were on the way, so it was in that environment in which this strike actually took place.”
He added that the Pentagon “rightfully admitted that it was a mistake.”
ABC’s Martha Raddatz noted the strike occurred on August 29, The New York Times had an “incredibly compelling” piece more than a week ago about surveillance on the ground and it “took five days more for the Pentagon to say it was a huge mistake.”